20 Edible Mushrooms I Can Identify Without Mistake Part II

My list of 20 #ediblemushrooms, that I can collect and eat without fear to be poisoned. #Mushrooms that can be easily identified and mushrooms without dangerous poisonous look alike doubles. Please watch first part of this video to learn more about six important steps I take all the time when foraging for wild mushrooms to avoid poisoning and stay safe.
And the most desirable mushroom and very hard to find Hens of the woods or Maitake mushroom. Edible polypore with many medicinal properties I would recommend you to read more information about this amazing mushroom, it is really worth your time. There are no look a-likes that are toxic. I would never make mistake identifying this mushrooms. Next one is Chickens of woods or Sulphur shelf also a polypore and this fact make this species unique and easy to identify. This mushroom grows on living or dead hardwood. Chickens of the woods is more common and easy to find and collect. Next one is Birch polypore. Medicinal mushroom can be eaten mostly when young, at the young stage they have soft flesh with slightly acidic taste, slowly becoming a bit bitter. Older specimens have spongy firm flesh with strong bitter taste and good only for making tea. Another desirable mushrooms not really common and hard to find called Ganoderma tsugae or hemlock varnish shelf, closed related species to reishi mushrooms or group of mushrooms called “mushrooms of immortality”. Ganoderma tsugae is saprophytic mushrooms growing mostly on Canadian hemlock or other conifers. Next very common and very easy to identify edible mushrooms are puff balls. They scattered or clustered in large group on decaying wood or wood debris in mixed or conifer forest. To identify them I just have to cut them open. There must be no gills. I can make a mistake if I accidentally grab very young mushroom belonging to Amanita family and that mistake very dangerous. Presenting you my favorite Golden American chanterelle that mushroom have looked alike mushrooms, but fortunately they are not deadly poisonous and for example False chanterelle even identify as edible in some field guides. I can tell Golden chanterelle from any other mushrooms just simply by smelling it. Another highly prized edible chanterelle is black chanterelle or Black trumpet. Vase shaped mushrooms with black cap, without gills on barely wrinkled surfaces, bluish -grey or later salmon-buff color, stem very short or absent. I can cook lots of delicious dishes with this mushrooms famous for their flavour and mild taste. I want to share what kind of true gills mushrooms I prefer to collect. Or cause they are Oyster mushrooms or Pleurotus populinus, Pleurotus ostreatus and Pleurotus pulmonarius, all three are morphologicaly similar and all are reported to be edible. Together with Pleurotus mushrooms I can find sometimes a cluster of another edible tree mushrooms. Hypsizygus tessulatus Bouquet like cluster of this medical mushrooms can be found on sugar maple trees or poplar or beech. And at the End of my list I left easy to identify Lactarius deliciosus. Before I saw this mushrooms in nature I was just reading about them. I recognised them right away, because “Orange latex milky” or “Saffron milk cap” has features that can be easily recognised. I can find another related species Lactarius thyinos or looking very similar to fist one , even spores under microscope almost the same with only one difference orange latex slowly becoming red vine or brown color not green, when brushed or injured. Lactarius thyinos also good edible mushrooms. . #porcini #mushroom #mushrooms #bolete #growingmushrooms #growingmushroomathome #mushroomgrowing #mycelium #maitake #ganoderma #chaga #chanterelles


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